Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
Veronica was startled, even the waiter next to them was stunned. “Everything…on the menu?” she asked.
“Yes, order everything that can be ordered,” Mason said.
“But…the price…” The waiter thought Mason was showing off or causing trouble.
“I’ll pay first. You can order all the dishes on the menu,” Mason said.
Now the waiter had nothing to say. Since Mason had already paid, even if they ordered everything, it was their own business!
Veronica hesitated and asked, “Do you really want to order everything?”
“Otherwise, it’s hard to tell which ones you like. If you like the taste, then during your pregnancy, we can have the restaurant’s chef take care of your meals,” Mason said.
“…” Veronica didn’t know what to say. This young master was so open about even wanting to poach people.
Soon, dishes started coming out one after another.
Knowing that they had ordered quite a lot, Veronica only tasted each dish and if she liked it, she would take a few more bites and make a note of which dish it was.
But even so, by the time all the dishes were served, she was almost full.
Fortunately, none of the dishes made her nauseous. She wasn’t sure if it was because they tasted good or because she had already thrown up earlier that day.
“How’s the food here?” Mason asked.
“It’s pretty good,” she replied.
“Then let the restaurant prepare your three meals a day?” Mason suggested.
“No need, no need!” Veronica quickly declined. She didn’t expect him to be serious about it. “If I want to eat, I’ll just come here and eat.”
“That’s fine too. Or we can see if there are other chefs who can make dishes that you like,” Mason said.
However, in the following days, Veronica’s meals were delivered by someone from the restaurant, and they were all dishes from that same restaurant.
As Mason had suggested, she could try the food and see if there were any other chefs who specialized in making meals for pregnant women that she preferred.
Due to her pregnancy, she needed to have her blood checked again to see how the baby was developing. Therefore, Veronica took a few days off from school to rest at home, so as not to risk getting morning sickness or affecting the baby’s health.
The results of the blood test, which was done every other day, relieved her. The baby was doing well and growing healthily, with the index doubling, indicating that the baby was healthy and growing well.
Of course, pregnancy lasts for 9 months, 40 weeks, and it’s just the beginning now.
She will spend every day with her baby well! Veronica silently promised in her heart.
These days, Veronica stayed in her small apartment. Mason would come back to accompany her when he had no classes, and of course, they would go to the hospital together for blood tests.
Veronica planned to recheck in a week. If the result was good, she would tell his family then.
“Why wait another week to tell them?” Mason clearly didn’t
“I…I’m afraid that the situation may not be good later, and they will be disappointed.” After another week, they could also do an ultrasound to check the fetal sac and fetal heart.
If the baby has a fetal sac and fetal heart, then it truly becomes a life.
She has also looked up a lot of information these days and knows that there are many situations where the baby may not have a fetal sac and fetal heart at all, which also represents natural selection, and the baby is instinctively eliminated from her body.
He saw her worries and said, “Okay, then it’s up to you. But I don’t want you to feel pressured. No matter what happens to the baby in your belly, it’s our business, not just yours. You don’t need to care about whether others will be disappointed. You are the most important one, understand?”
This is Mason’s comfort.
There are not too many sweet words, but it makes her feel very relieved.
“Hmm.” She responded softly. Whatever happens in the future, they will face it together.
However, Veronica did not expect that the next day when Mason went to school, the doorbell of her apartment rang, and the person who came was the ones who had conflicts with her in the restaurant before.
“You…” Veronica frowned and did not let the other party into the house.
She made it clear that she did not welcome these people in front of her.
“We are here to apologize to you, Student Barlow,” one of them smiled and spoke up.
Cato and his girlfriend, who were the ones who had the most argument with Veronica in the restaurant earlier, looked embarrassed and no longer acted arrogantly like they did before.
“Student Barlow, we’re sorry. It was just a small matter when we argued over a seat in the restaurant that day. We heard that you weren’t feeling well, so we bought some milk and fruit to visit you,” Cato’s girlfriend said apologetically.
Although their tone was humble, there was still a sense of reluctance.
Cato also spoke up, “Student Barlow, it was a misunderstanding that day. If you suffered any losses, I can compensate you. Please forgive me.”
Veronica looked at these people and understood that they probably knew about her relationship with
Mason, so they came to apologize on purpose.
In the end, it was just fear of the Reed family.
If it weren’t for the Reed family, these people probably wouldn’t have come to apologize to her.
“But I don’t want to forgive you,” Veronica said to Cato. “I don’t think there was any misunderstanding that day.”
“We’re all classmates, why say that?” Cato’s girlfriend said.
“If we were really just classmates, then we wouldn’t have poured soup on each other in public. Did you not think about the danger before doing it?” Veronica said coldly.
“It’s not like it was that dangerous. The soup wasn’t even hot, and besides, you weren’t burned,” the other person defended.
Veronica found it funny that some people always downplayed their own mistakes and thought they hadn’t done anything wrong.
But these past few days, she still felt scared when she thought about that bowl of soup.
Fortunately, the soup wasn’t hot. If it had been scalding, it wouldn’t have just been a matter of her getting burned, but it could have also caused her to lose the baby in her stomach.
To her, the other person’s behavior wasn’t just insulting, but it was clearly hurtful.
So she had no intention of forgiving him!
“Whether or not I got burned is one thing, but whether or not he threw the soup is another,” Veronica said. “Besides, it’s my right to forgive or not, isn’t it?”
Cato’s girlfriend wasn’t a good-tempered person to begin with, and she was used to being domineering in class. When she heard Veronica say this, she immediately retorted, “You’re just acting like you’re better than everyone else because you’re Mason’s girlfriend. You think you’re superior and can pressure others at will?!”
“It seems like you’re the ones pressuring me now,” Veronica said.
“How can you say that? You deliberately pressured the Reed family to pressure Cato’s family. Are you so malicious that you want to make them unlucky just because of a small bowl of soup?” the girl said angrily.
“Mira!” Cato quickly shouted to silence his girlfriend. After all, if things continued like this, it might turn into a conflict.
“Student Barlow, it’s my business to throw soup on you, and it has nothing to do with my family. But now, because of the Reed family’s obstruction, the project that we could have taken over has been discouraged and suspended. I hope you can make the Reed family stop,” Cato said.
His girlfriend muttered, “That’s a multi-billion dollar project. It’s too much for just a bowl of soup!”
Veronica finally understood that the reason was more complicated than she had originally thought.
From what she heard, Cato’s family should be well-off.
Perhaps it was precisely because of this that he would throw soup without any concern for the consequences.
Maybe for Cato, even if she was really burned by the soup, it would only be a matter of paying some money.
“Sometimes, a bowl of soup can have such consequences. A small accident can cause irreparable consequences. Since your family is in business, you should understand this principle,” Veronica said to
Cato. “Don’t make this mistake again in the future.”
Cato squinted his eyes and said, “What did you say–”
Just as he raised his hand, suddenly two people who had been hiding in the dark rushed out and subdued Cato to the ground.
These were the bodyguards arranged by Mason to protect Veronica.
Cato was embarrassed and pressed to the ground, his face turning red. He tried to twist his body to get rid of the restraint, but it was futile.
“What are you doing, let me go!” Cato shouted.
The other people were at a loss and wanted to help Cato, but they didn’t dare to.
“You splashed me with soup. You came to apologize because of the pressure from the Reed family. If my boyfriend didn’t have the background of the Reed family, if he was just an ordinary person, you wouldn’t apologize at all. You might even think that splashing me with soup was a lesson for me, right?”
Veronica spoke up. “So now, I’m just giving you a taste of your own medicine. This is a lesson for you. I hope you can learn from it and don’t think you can rely on your family background. There will always be people with a stronger background than you in this world.”
After Veronica finished speaking, she ignored the people at the door and closed the door for peace and quiet.
Anyway, the remaining matters would be handled by the bodyguards.
When Mason returned, he said to Veronica, “Those people won’t come to bother you again.”
“Did you ask your family to pressure and obstruct the business of the person who splashed soup on me?” Veronica asked.
“Hmm, I talked to my dad and didn’t want to let the person who splashed soup on you off the hook.”
Mason said.
He couldn’t bear to let anyone insult his cherished baby.
“But I heard from the bodyguards that you haven’t forgiven them.” he added.
Veronica sneered, “Why should I forgive them? They didn’t do anything worth forgiving. They were just bullying others with their power. Now that they’ve met someone stronger than themselves, they’re willing to back down. If it were someone without a background next time, they would still act the same way.”
Therefore, she had no desire for forgiveness or sympathy towards them.
“Did you mention my pregnancy to Uncle Reed when you talked to him?” Veronica asked.
“Didn’t you want to keep it a secret for now? So, I didn’t say anything,” Mason replied.
“Let’s wait until after the ultrasound tomorrow to tell them,”
Veronica said. Just thinking about the upcoming examination made her nervous.
“What’s wrong? Are you worried?” Mason asked.
“Mm-hmm,” she murmured softly.